1,600 jobs announced across Ireland in one week

After a relatively quiet summer, the sci-tech jobs announcements are back with a bang this week.

Jobs announcements, as with most things in life, come in peaks and troughs and this week was most definitely a peak for Ireland.

The week saw more than 1,600 jobs announced around the country, with 1,000 of those surfacing in 24 hours.

Cork saw a massive boost for its pharma industry with Janssen revealing 200 pharma jobs and 450 construction jobs as part of a €300m expansion.

Veritas announced big plans for Dublin at the beginning of the week, with a new R&D centre that will bring about 250 jobs to the capital city, and they weren’t the only company bringing new roles to Dublin.

Global investment and retirement savings business Fidelity International is practically doubling its Dublin office staff with 250 new positions announced this week.

Limerick and Galway also saw jobs boosts from data player Stats and Storm Technology respectively.

As if this week wasn’t jam-packed enough with brand new jobs, we also got the chance to head down to one of the biggest graduate fairs in Ireland at University of Limerick to speak to some of the biggest tech recruiters in Ireland.

If you want to know what the likes of Apple, Dell and EY are looking for, we’ve got you covered.

We also popped by UpStarter’s sixth recruitment event with even more tech giants who were looking for both experienced jobseekers and new graduates.

With all this talk of jobs within the sci-tech industry, it’s enough to make anyone consider making a career change. It may sound farfetched but, in reality, it’s very possible to completely change your industry. We got some tips from Hays’ Alex Shteingardt to help you with that.

Jenny is the Careers Editor at Siliconrepublic.com, although she prefers to be known as Careers Overlord. When she’s not writing about the science and tech industry, she’s writing short stories and attempting novels. She continuously buys more books than she can read in a lifetime and pretty stationery is her kryptonite. She also believes seagulls to be the root of all evil and her baking is the stuff of legends.

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